Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Big Data

Cloudera rebounds on revenue and profit outlook, buys Fast Forward Labs

By Robert Hof Sep 7, 2017

In its second quarter since going public in April, big-data firm Cloudera Inc. managed to beat expectations, reversing a first-quarter disappointment that saw its shares plunge 16 percent the next day. The company, which sells…

NEWS

GE’s Avitas Systems hopes to reinvent industrial inspection with AI from Nvidia

By Robert Hof Sep 7, 2017

Inspecting industrial equipment such as oil rigs and electrical towers is a messy, expensive, time-consuming and dangerous undertaking. Nvidia Corp. and General Electric Co.’s Avitas Systems are looking to change all that. The two…

Apps

Team communications apps are out of control. With Stride, Atlassian aims to fix that

By Robert Hof Sep 7, 2017

You’re on Slack every hour of the waking day, or maybe it’s HipChat, or Microsoft Corp.’s Teams, or even Facebook Inc.’s Workplace. You do Hangouts or Zoom or WebEx video conferencing several times a…

Emerging Tech

ICO 101: This is how to do initial coin offerings right – and wrong

By Robert Hof Sep 1, 2017

Initial coin offerings, a method of crowdfunding using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or custom coins or tokens, have exploded this year. A stunning $1.1 billion has been raised in 89 ICOs so far this…

Big Data

Box beats earnings forecasts amid ongoing losses, but shares fall

By Robert Hof Aug 30, 2017

It’s no surprise that cloud content management company Box Inc. keeps losing money as it chases growth, but the strategy means that investors get a little worried when results don’t keep smashing their expectations.…

Cloud

Pivotal, Google and VMware team up on software container service

By Robert Hof Aug 29, 2017

Pivotal, which helps companies build software to run in public and private clouds, today announced a new service to deploy applications in software “containers” to run on Google Inc.’s cloud service and on VMware Inc.’s…

Emerging Tech

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

By Robert Hof Aug 25, 2017

Every other day, it seems, a new startup is raising millions of dollars by selling cryptocurrency coins or tokens to raise money — lots of money, really fast. In May, for instance, Web browser…

Infra

Pure Storage shares jump on strong earnings, but it replaces CEO with former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo

By Robert Hof Aug 24, 2017

Storage technology startup Pure Storage Inc. today said it’s kicking Chief Executive Scott Dietzen upstairs to chairman and appointing veteran tech executive Charles Giancarlo its new CEO. The company, which makes large flash-memory storage systems,…

Cloud

Google offers cheaper network pricing tier for its cloud

By Robert Hof Aug 23, 2017

Hoping to battle its way into contention with cloud computing leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure, Google Inc. today offered a new, cheaper way to get basic network access on its cloud…

Big Data

Box taps Google cloud vision AI to make sense of enterprise files and images

By Robert Hof Aug 17, 2017

Hoping to help companies make sense of their growing crush of data, Box Inc. today announced a deal with Google Inc. to tap into the search giant’s artificial intelligence prowess. The file sharing and…

Robert Hof

Team communications apps are out of control. With Stride, Atlassian aims to fix that

ICO 101: This is how to do initial coin offerings right – and wrong

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

Pure Storage shares jump on strong earnings, but it replaces CEO with former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo

Box taps Google cloud vision AI to make sense of enterprise files and images

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